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Jan 20, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles |Richard Spencer
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Tom Ball |Gabrielle Weiniger |Amal Helles
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | Gabrielle Weiniger |Amal Helles
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles
After a year of war, let me tell you a love story. It begins in Gaza: my home, where I was born and where my children were born, a place I always dreamt of leaving until I had to. It begins by the Mediterranean Sea, where I met Samed, when we were both students at different universities in Gaza. I studied English, spending my days reading Jane Austen and Shakespeare; he studied journalism. One day in 2012, when I was in my first year, he came to visit a friend who was at the same university as me.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | George Grylls |Amal Helles
For more than a year, Israeli soldiers scoured the scorched earth of Gaza in search of the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, who was thought to be hiding in a vast tunnel network. Then, by chance, they found him. Late on Wednesday in the southern city of Rafah, trainee Israeli troops from the 828th Battalion, a mixture of novice soldiers and reservists, spotted three suspicious figures moving from “home to home on the run”, the military said.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles
With the spotlight on the war in Lebanon, Israel has started an operation in northern Gaza that has drawn accusations that it aims to starve Hamas members into surrendering, along with tens of thousands of civilians who did not follow warnings to evacuate.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles
It was on October 13, 2023, the seventh day of the war, that Mkhaimar Abusada left his home in Gaza City after a warning from the Israeli military to head south. Thousands of other Palestinians received the same message on their phones. Abusada packed his belongings and left with his family. It was clear to the political science professor that Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, which killed more than 1,100 people, would provoke a war unlike the previous ones that lasted weeks.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles |Samer Al-Atrush
At least 19 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a camp in Gaza where people displaced by the war have sought refuge, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Israel’s military said it had conducted a “precise strike” that targeted Samer Ismail Khadr Abu Daqqa, a Hamas commander believed to have been involved in the October 7 attacks on Israel, among other militants. It disputed the Palestinian death toll and accused Hamas of embedding operatives among civilians.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles
Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan used to tease his new bride Jumana that he would name the boy after his father. But she wanted him to be Asser, the enthralling. And his twin sister would be Ayssel, moonlight. They were four days old when Mohammed promised Jumana she would have her wish, and left her with the sleeping twins to get their birth certificates in Gaza. While he was at the hospital, he heard an explosion but thought nothing of it.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Amal Helles
Rajab Al-Gafri was late for morning prayers at dawn yesterday. The delay may have saved his life. The 36-year old was still performing his ablutions at the school in Gaza City where he had sought shelter from the war when three Israeli missiles struck the section of the compound used as a mosque. “The sound was very, very loud,” he said. “I was screaming from the horror of the scene in front of me and the fire was eating people’s bodies and the place was on fire.
